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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Acroholia delivers death metal and grindcore from Belgrade since 1992, over three decades of extremity making them one of Serbia's longest-running extreme metal acts. Their drunken-heights name has guided generations of grinding brutality from the Serbian capital.
Actvs Mortis is a death metal and grindcore band from Santa Cruz de Mieres in Asturias, Spain, formed in February 2019, featuring Txeffy on vocals, Diego and David on guitars, Carmelo on bass, and Remis on drums. Their catalog spans from early demos through the 2021 album Sempiternvs Terror to a 2023 three-way split with Anal Pus and Serrucho, blending death metal, grindcore, and groove elements.
Pennsylvania grindcore project named after kidney inflammation. Medical horror channeled through grinding extremity.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina grindcore project named after the waxy substance formed on decomposing bodies. The forensic science term suits the clinical precision of their extremity.
Adnauseam is an Italian-American death metal and grindcore project that defies genre boundaries with their mathematically precise yet chaotic approach to extreme music. Their album "Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est" is a study in controlled dissonance, layering atonal guitar work over intricate blast patterns in a way that feels simultaneously calculated and unhinged. Their Roadburn 2025 live set captured the visceral intensity of their performance in a festival known for pushing sonic extremes.
Adrenochrome is a death metal and grindcore band from Rhode Island's Blackstone Valley. Their 2022 full-length "In Memoriam" delivers ten tracks of relentless extremity rooted in the New England grind tradition.
Adronniy Nikolay delivers death metal and grindcore from an undisclosed Russian location since 2023. Their personal-name identity lends an intimate, diary-like quality to their extreme metal output.
Affront delivers grindcore from Hajnówka in the Podlasie region near the Białowieża Forest since 2019. From this town at the edge of Europe's last primeval forest, they bring primal fury through blastbeat-driven extremity.
Afgrund has delivered death metal, grindcore, and punk from Stockholm since 2009. Named after the Swedish word for 'abyss,' over fifteen years of bottom-feeding extremity have established them in the capital's underground.
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